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February 27th, 2009 | Posted in News
On my way to San Francisco today, but at least I’ll have something to read on the way! Issue # 3 of the excellent “Stay Tooned!” magazine appeared in my mailbox on Wednesday. This issue features profiles of two of the members of my local NCS Chapter, the “North Central”: editorial cartoonist Paul Fell and illustrator Cedric Hohnstadt. Also featured are profiles on Chad Carpenter, Benita Epstein, R.J. Matson, Jim Scancarelli, Richard Thompson and Mike Witmer. There are addtional articles by Mark Tatulli, John Kovaleski and Mike Edholm, as well as regular columns and contributions by R.C. Harvey, Norm Feuti and myself. Cover by Richard… READ MORE
February 26th, 2009 | Posted in MAD Magazine
As I mentioned before, I have suddenly found myself attending WonderCon in San Francisco beginning tomorrow and running through Sunday evening. This happened very much at the last minute… in more ways than one. Before I begin to go into the gory details, here is my official schedule of appearances at WonderCon: Fri. Feb 27th: 4:00 pm- 5:00 pm: DC Comics Booth Sat. Feb 28th: 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm: DC Comics Booth 5:00 pm- 7:00 pm: Super Capers Movie Promo Booth (1412) Sun. Mar 1st: 11:00 am- 12:00 noon: Super Capers Movie Promo Booth (1412) UPDATE– I will also be spending some time at the… READ MORE
February 25th, 2009 | Posted in MAD Magazine
The International Society of Caricature Artists (ISCA, formerly known as the NCN) just announced their guest speaker(s) for the 2009 Annual Caricature Convention and Competition on November 2nd-7th in Sandusky, Ohio: It’s an all MAD lineup featuring: Sam Viviano– Longtime MAD artist and current art director Mark Fredrickson– Frequent MAD cover artist, former airbrush demigod and current digital painting master Hermann Mejia– The brilliant “artist’s artist” for MAD, caricaturist, painter, sculptor, genius Tom Richmond– An unworthy schlub along for the ride That’s quite a lineup, and as far as I know very unique. As Sam pointed out to me, it will be possibly the first… READ MORE
February 25th, 2009 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
A very quick (I’m talking 10 minute) study of somebody I’d better get used to doing caricatures of…¬¨‚Ć U.S. President Barack Obama. READ MORE
February 24th, 2009 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Click for a Closer Look MAD had a difficult dilemma concerning their proposed parody of the movie “Watchmen”… the question of when to do it. For once the problem was not in getting a reliable advanced script. MAD occasionally tries doing movie parodies prior to the release of the films, so that they will be on the stands around the same time the films were hot. This doesn’t always work out, as the source material the writers would work from were often leaked scripts that didn’t turn out to be accurate… like the time we got the ending wrong for “X-Men 2”. Supposedly the source… READ MORE
February 23rd, 2009 | Posted in MAD Magazine
In comic book stores now and on news stands on Feb. 24th: MAD # 499 (April 2009) Cover (Mark Frederickson) The Fundalini Pages (Desmond Devlin, Evan Dorkin & Sarah Dwyer, Drew Friedman, Garth Gerhart, Marc Hempel, Darren Johnson, Jeff Kruse, Barry Liebmann, Kevin Pope, Sam Sisco, Ward Sutton, Jason Yungbluth) What the Heck is the Difference? (Uncredited) Botchmen (Desmond Devlin, Tom Richmond) A MAD Look at Trade Schools (Sergio Aragon?¬©s, Colorist: Luth) Digital TV Facts (Jeff Kruse) The Decided Disadvantages of an On-Line Education (John Caldwell) The Darker Side of the Lighter Side (Dave Berg, Uncredited) A Letter from Jamie Dimon (Dick DeBartolo) MAD’s Unheroic… READ MORE
February 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: I’m a college student, and I have very little time as it is, but I also freelance and am about to start drawing caricatures at a theme park for the summer as well… so I have a lot on my plate. Recently I’ve put on a few pounds (more like 20ish…), because I haven’t been eating well or exercising like I used to, because I don’t have the time. My question to you is, how on earth do you find time to make it to the gym, or not eat garbage all the time? A: The quick answer is… I often don’t find the… READ MORE
February 21st, 2009 | Posted in Surf's Up Dept.
Frequent reader of The Mad Blog and fellow Minnesotan Marv Sohlo emailed me a link to this video which features a short but informative piece on caricatures and why they resonate so much with people. It’s from the BCC show “The Human Face” narrated by John Cleese. Unfortunately the creators do not allow embedding, but click on the screen capture to go to the YouTube clip: Click on the image for the full clip… it’s less than 2 minutes…. we’ll wait… I’ve always said that a really good caricature looks more like the subject than a photo does, and some of the observations this video… READ MORE
